The utility of sonographic features during endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration for lymph node staging in patients with lung cancer: A standard endobronchial ultrasound image classification system

Chest

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 641-647

  Fujiwara, Taiki ^a   Yasufuku, Kazuhiro ^a,b   Nakajima, Takahiro ^a   Chiyo, Masako ^a   Yoshida, Shigetoshi ^a   Suzuki, Makoto ^a   Shibuya, Kiyoshi ^a   Hiroshima, Kenzo ^a   Nakatani, Yukio ^a   Yoshino, Ichiro ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSBRONCHIAL ASPIRATION; BRONCHOSCOPY; CARCINOMA; COHORT ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; SECONDARY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CARCINOMA; COHORT STUDIES; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77956803691     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.09-2006     Document Type: Article

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